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RUPA is a puppet union right?

If that's the case, there's some room for alleviation there. They've done nothing to make the Tahs an attractive place to go to though.

I genuinely don't understand what Rugby Australia have been doing for the past 4 months. Not a salty "they let my team die, their decisions have been awful", but "have they actually done anything resembling a days work?"

That's a big change from 2 weeks ago as well. He never actually got capped for Aus A either to my recollection, which just adds value. EDIT: Hanigan in Jersey 19 for both Tonga and Portugal, Josh is unaligned. Wonder if he has a Scottish Granny...

Big decision made in the last 2 weeks then, he was in 3 minds before the QF.

My Cope is that it's a 900iq move from Schmidt and he'll get 2 full games against Wales and Tonga for the reds rather than holding tackle bags for a few weeks and a 20-30 minute cameo against Georgia.

For the first time in about 4 or 5 seasons Uelese deserved a run on weight of performance rather than just potential. If core skills are why he's been left out, I don't see that as being an issue, as long as it's consistent.

This team is not this team

It's Wales, so it won't matter. But still a few interesting decisions, particularly at lock, and a little at Hooker.

There's a few folks "high on the copium" as the zoomers were saying a couple of years ago

I wouldn't be worried about it

Clowns will show themselves as clowns. No one (at least no one thinking reasonably) is saying no Rebels = no Victorians playing Rugby. What people are saying is, that to my understanding: - There is no confirmed outcomes for the Rebels Super W players - There is no confirmed outcomes for the...

That's like Czechs being salty about being called Eastern European instead of Central. Yes, you've got a reasonable point that should be listened to in a broader sociological context, but the contexts people describe them as Eastern comes from being post-soviet states, not as one of the...

More Teams in Northern France is good for the game.

If you want to be Wales, be Wales. I'd prefer to they try and be Argentina if you're heading down this path.

SO we're killing both Super Rugby and the Wallabies.

Is the move to performance/incentive based contracting coming with an open selection policy for the Wallabies or are we staying domestic only?

If your position is that Rugby Union doesn't have a place as a professional sport in Australia, that's fine. Nothing stops Australian Rugby utilising aa similar model to Argentina.

There's no reason you can't switch to incentive based contracts, it would probably work out well financially for RA, at least to start with. I don't see a pathway to it improving either the quality of either the Wallabies or Domestic Rugby in Australia, but hey, we get to not call our players...